"For the past 15 years, Israel has been channeling hundreds of millions of shekels it had collected in the West Bank into its state coffers when it was supposed to go to the Palestinians."

Further more the quote is misleading. The money should go to the "Civil Administration", which is the body responsible for all 'C' area. 'C' areas are territories in which, under the Oslo accord, Israel has civil responsibility for (which include collecting taxes) as a side note - I think around 90% of Palestinians in the west bank live under Palestinian civil control.

So basically - the money - would still go to an Israeli body and should go to an Israeli body - as agreed under the Oslo accords.

What wasn't right - is that under international law - the money must be reinvested in the occupied territory.

Something which technically didn't happen - but de facto - does happen - because the "Civil Administration" gets its budget out of Israel's budget - and the money it invests back in the Palestinian territories is much larger then collected.

Here are some actual quotes:

"This income was registered as part of state income, and the Finance Ministry budgeted all the activities of the Civil Administration and the military in the area out of the state budget," the Justice Ministry said in a statement.

"Recently ... it turned out that the issue should be arranged in a way that would make it obvious that the income should be registered as part of the Civil Administration's budget, as authorized by the Knesset."

The Finance Ministry said: "It should be noted the question of whether the funds are registered as state income or Civil Administration income is a technical question, because at the end of the day the State of Israel invests in the area amounts considerably larger than the fees it collects.

The funds in question are collected by the Civil Administration, overwhelmingly from Israelis. They include fees and levies for various activities such as royalties from quarries and levies on public auctions. The sums are estimated in the hundreds of millions of shekels, sometimes reaching as much as NIS 80 million a year.

The Finance Ministry said: "It should be noted the question of whether the funds are registered as state income or Civil Administration income is a technical question, because at the end of the day the State of Israel invests in the area amounts considerably larger than the fees it collects.

Israel actually does invest a lot of that money into services for Palestinian areas.

Like what?

Also note that Israel is forbidden by international law from investing too much, because the region is legally under occupation.

Not at all. Since Israel are occupiers they are responsible for the well-being of the occupied population according to international law that Israel has signed.

The same international laws prohibit them from moving people into or out of the occupied areas. This is why Israel commits war crimes by allowing, protecting and encouraging Israeli Jewish "settlers" to move to occupied areas.

The money in question is taxes. Israel gives more money to Palestinians than it gets from their taxes. We've debunked this one before, milligram. My taxes pay for their electricity. Their taxes don't do shit for me.

Yea, and all you do is steal their land and place them into open air prisons. You deprive them of the necessary economic freedom and resources necessary for a productive economy and then you have the fucking balls to BLAME THEM.

More nonsensical Jewish spin from a fucking thieving worthless kike. FUCK YOU! I can completely understand how a whole population of Germans could hate such a people. A fucking culture that pisses on the cultures around it and them and then charges for the piss. Fucking worthless amoral degenerates.

The people that matter read them. It's just my little way of showing others that there are other people out there as fed up with Jews as they are. It's not like my hatred is misplaced. As soon as the Jews in this country start acting like equal members of the world instead of "Gods chosen people" I'll let my hate for them go. Something tells me there is a Jew gene or something which makes them angry, manipulative pieces of shit; It can't all be religion.

Nobody is more critical of Israel's policy than I, but the two girls I've dated who were Jewish were friendly, humble, eager to meet Palestinians, and incredibly kind hearted. Painting all "Jews" with the same brush expresses one thing and one thing alone, "I'm an idiot".

Too bad you say this based on your preconceptions (and those prevalent in /r/worldnews) rather than basing your view on facts.

You're part of a misinformation cycle where angry Reddittors apply their bias to misrepresent articles or sample biased sources, paste it on /r/worldnews, get other Reddittors more biased and angry, and so on.

For example, this article claims Israel collects money from Palestinians and doesn't give it back, but the fact is Israel gives more money to developing the West Bank than it collects from it.

The Finance Ministry said: "It should be noted the question of whether the funds are registered as state income or Civil Administration income is a technical question, because at the end of the day the State of Israel invests in the area amounts considerably larger than the fees it collects.

I don't get it, do you just look at the title and immediately start bashing your keyboard or do you actively ignore the parts of the article you don't like?

The point is that the tax money is supposed to be used in the West Bank and not only is it being used there, more money than is being collected is being invested.

If you pay your municipal taxes into the nation treasury department and the treasury department pays it into your municipality then everything is in order anyway, regardless of who gets to actually cash your cheque.

So...you were wrong and you'll actually read the articles before you make indignant comments on them in the future or you will continue to be willfully ignorant and make populist statements that are grounded in emotion rather than fact?

So...you were wrong and you'll actually read the articles before you make indignant comments on them in the future or you will continue to be willfully ignorant and make populist statements that are grounded in emotion rather than fact?

Would you look at that - another article upvoted in /r/worldnews where the title completely misrepresents the content. Goes to show just how many people here read the article compared to just the opinionated, Israel-bashing title.